When loading into a multiplayer server the game rapidly consumes more and more ram, going from the 3 gb It's allowed to over 10 gb, causing every other application on my computer to run worse overall, I have 32 gb of ram and my computer isn't running out
#[42.15.2] [Linux] Project Zomboid Using More Ram than It's allowed
neon ridge
When loading into a multiplayer server the game rapidly consumes more and more r...
This happens on the loading screen, same mod list on windows
long sigil
3gb is the heap, the game uses RAM for other assets above the heap
More mods means more assets means more RAM
neon ridge
More mods means more assets means more RAM
Why would it be any different between Windows and Linux?
night lintel
Why would it be any different between Windows and Linux?
linux hands out RAM to processes differently, especially in regards to caching, which would be the "above the heap" case that Beard mentioned. more notably it tends to not reclaim memory for caches until it actually needs to, preferring to keep them around to avoid the (typically CPU) overhead of spinning them back up again.
if you were truly utilizing all 32GB of your RAM and experiencing slowdowns then you might have a valid basis here, but I imagine (from what you described, with 10GB usage) i imagine that wasn't the case
neon ridge
linux hands out RAM to processes differently, especially in regards to caching, ...
I don't understand what you mean
long sigil
Task Manager shows lower RAM for Java apps because it reports mainly the memory unique to the process. Linux tools like top, htop, btop show higher usage because it includes shared libraries, like glibc, counted fully per process plus JVM overhead